This week sees the big return to work after the Christmas break. But after the last of the celebrations are over is the real hangover your lack of enthusiasm for work? Has time off made you reflect and realise certain parts of your role are over repetitive, uninspiring and just taking up too much time? Are you considering quitting your current role and finding a job where you feel more engaged, more valued and one where you feel more excited to turn up every day? You are not alone. Globally business is witnessing what has been termed “the big quit” – in the UK alone the number of open jobs rose to a record high of 1.1 million in the three months to August 2021¹. Employee burnout is also on the increase – research shows a 15% global rise this year increasing to a jaw dropping 81% in “non-thriving” company cultures.²
The good news is that the effects of an almost two-year global pandemic have thrust digital transformation on employers and a recognition of the need to use this digital investment to keep their valuable staff. Leading employers are becoming increasingly genuine about putting the employee at the centre of the business. They want to keep them engaged, create space for critical thinking and problem solving and use their time and talents to develop the business. Some are embracing automation as a way to take away those ‘time-rich, imagination-poor’ yet critical tasks from employees.
‘Business automation is getting software to do some work so that humans don’t have to.’
Automation software loves the work that people hate. It is good at speed, repetition and accuracy. “No-code” platforms like AUTTO make automating key business processes and documents easy. Automating these tedious but nonetheless important daily tasks of every company will free up your time – our customers tell us about 75%. Investing in a technology that can replace the hours you spend, for example, laboriously cutting and pasting into a spreadsheet or sending out endless emails, proves an employer is invested in you and wants you to feel more valued and empowered to make decisions for the good of the business. Routine documents such as order processing, contracts, invoices, sales activity reports, quote generations, T&Cs, licenses and more can all be replaced with automation. If technology can take care of the mundane, repetitive tasks, that frees up your time to focus on more challenging, creative projects.
Platforms like AUTTO are so easy to use that non-IT staff with no programming skills are being given the automations to identify and create – after all you are at the coal face of your business and know which processes need changing. With AUTTO anyone can automate in a few hours with our simple no-code platform. No technical expertise is required. You can take any of your unique business processes, easily learn the system and, like Lego building blocks, automate them.
Automation is driving huge change in the employee experience of work. Perhaps as you return to work this year you should be asking your employer what investment they are making in automation – after all, it is in effect, an investment in you.
References:
¹Office of National Statistics 2021
²O.C.Tanner Europe Global Culture Report 2021
